---
title: "shareParticipant(forEmailAddress:)"
framework: cloudkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Method
path: "cloudkit/ckcontainer/shareparticipant(foremailaddress:)"
---

# shareParticipant(forEmailAddress:)

Fetches the share participant with the specified email address.

## Declaration

```swift
func shareParticipant(forEmailAddress email: String) async throws -> CKShare.Participant
```

## Discussion

Discussion Returns The share participant for the email address. CloudKit can translate any valid email address into a share participant.  If the email address doesn’t correspond to a known iCloud account, then at share-accept-time, CloudKit offers the accepting participant a vetting process. The accepting participant uses this vetting process to link the email address to an iCloud account. This method searches for the share participant asynchronously and with a low priority. If you want the task to execute with a higher priority, create an instance of CKFetchShareParticipantsOperation and configure it to use the necessary priority.